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Some observations on the cerebral veins. By J. E. A. O'Connell. Department of Anatomy, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London. Brain 1934: 57; 484–503.
John O'Connell (1906–2001) writes from the Department of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 3 years after qualifying in medicine in 1931, on the developmental anatomy of the cortical veins and sinuses. The work was carried out at the suggestion of Professor (Herbert Henry) Woollard (1889–1939: Professor of anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1929–36). O'Connell's anatomical observations are illustrated by Miss Z. M. Stead. Later, O'Connell was to use this knowledge of embryology to explain abnormal anatomy, in suggesting that craniopagus twins can be classified as partial—where the union is of limited extent—or total—a situationin which two brains lie within a single cranium (J. E. A. O'Connell. Craniopagus twins: surgical anatomy and embryology and their implications. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 1976; 39: 1–22). The
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